Makarec K, Persinger M A
Percept Mot Skills. 1985 Jun;60(3):831-42. doi: 10.2466/pms.1985.60.3.831.
Internal and external validity tests were completed for an inventory that has been used to infer signs of temporal lobe lability. Strong, positive correlations were reported for a normal (reference) population between the numbers of responses that referred to paranormal experiences (including feelings of a "presence") and separately to religious beliefs and the numbers of spikes per minute within electroencephalographic recordings from the temporal lobe. Numbers of spikes were also correlated with the subjects' scores on the hysteria, schizophrenia, and psychasthenia scales from the MMPI. These clusters of items were not correlated with electrical activity from the occipital lobe (the comparison region). Numbers of responses to control clusters of mundane experiences were not correlated with the temporal lobe measures. A group of student poets scored higher on different subclusters of temporal lobe signs and on the schizophrenia and mania scales of the MMPI than the reference group. For both groups, there were positive correlations between the amount of alpha activity in the temporal lobe only and answers to items such as "hearing inner voices" and "feeling as if things were not real." These results demonstrate that quantitative measures of electrical changes in the temporal lobe are correlated with (or with the report of) specific experiences that are prevalent during surgical or epileptic stimulation of this brain region.
针对一份用于推断颞叶易变性迹象的量表，完成了内部和外部效度测试。对于正常（参照）人群，报告了提及超自然体验（包括“存在”感）的反应数量、分别提及宗教信仰的反应数量与颞叶脑电图记录中每分钟的尖峰数量之间存在强正相关。尖峰数量还与受试者在明尼苏达多相人格调查表（MMPI）癔症、精神分裂症和神经衰弱量表上的得分相关。这些项目组与枕叶（对照区域）的电活动不相关。对日常体验控制组的反应数量与颞叶测量值不相关。一组学生诗人在颞叶体征的不同子组以及MMPI的精神分裂症和躁狂症量表上的得分高于参照组。对于两组而言，仅颞叶中的阿尔法活动量与诸如“听到内心声音”和“感觉事物不真实”等项目的答案之间存在正相关。这些结果表明，颞叶电变化的定量测量与该脑区手术或癫痫刺激期间普遍存在的特定体验（或其报告）相关。
